Gold in New Frisco

1939 film

Axel Eggebrecht
Ernst Hasselbach

Starring

Hans Söhnker
Alexander Golling
Otto Wernicke

Cinematography

Otto Baecker
Carl Hoffmann

Edited byGottlieb MadlMusic byNorbert Schultze

Production
company

Bavaria Film

Distributed byBavaria Film

Release date

3 October 1939 (1939-10-03)

Running time

97 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman

Gold in New Frisco is a 1939 German adventure film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Hans Söhnker, Alexander Golling, and Otto Wernicke. It was one of a number of western-themed films made in Germany during the late 1930s including Sergeant Berry, Water for Canitoga, and The Kaiser of California.^[1] It was popular enough to be rereleased in 1949.

It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilhelm Depenau and Ludwig Reiber.

Cast

Hans Söhnker as Frank Norton
Alexander Golling as Jim de Lacy
Otto Wernicke as Jonathan Pepper
Anni Markart as Dolly Pepper
Gustav Waldau as Burtons
Ellen Frank as Kitty Burtons
Hilde Jansen as Doris Burton
Walter Lantzsch as Bronson
Paul Westermeier as Watson
Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Stones
Carl Wery as McKinley
Ernst Martens as Forges
Alfons Teuber as Jack McGrather
Gerhard Bienert as Ferguson
Ludwig Schmid-Wildy as Dickson
Walter Pose as Spencer
Danny Guertler as Miller
Franz Loskarn as Blodd
Reinhold Lütjohann as Henry Manning
Josef Eichheim as Mick

References

^ O'Brien p. 99

Bibliography

O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth (2004). Nazi Cinema as Enchantment. The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich. Rochester, NY: Camden House. ISBN 978-1-57113-283-3.